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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-10-01
A Piece of Legal Advice Gratis.
Griffin (Ga.) Sun.

UT!Utn Ud.J Dun.
gentleman from the country hailed Colonel
T. W. Thurman, q well-known Griffin attorney,
on the streets yesterday, and on coming up with
him said
"Colonel, I want little legal advice, which
am not able to pay for, and which hope you will
give me-"
every WELL" said the colonel, "I am always
willing to give advice free, especially on the street.
and to my friends. WHAT'S it you want to know"
~ want to know how can get out Of working
the roads" said the gentleman.
"Let me tell you, my friend" said the colonel
"About twenty odd years ago the Yankees shot off
one of my legs and I've never had to work the
roads since. The best way to get out of road duty
is for you to 60 and have one of your legs cut of"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-10-01
A Boom for the "Faith Cure"
Lancaster (Pa.) Ne,0 Fro

L<0HCuoteF " W. <seW GIUs
The faith cure idea is by no means a local or an
ephemeral one. It appears to be making prose-
lytes from day to day and all over the country.
While there may be wide difference of opinion
as to its value, there can be none about the sim
cerity of its adherents. These have at length
taken measures to put their ideas into force in a
way that must demonstrate either the value or the
futility of the faith cure theory. A hospital has
been opened at jamestown, Pennsylvania, where
patients from the western portions of this State
and Ohio will be received and treated during
period Of one month. All this shows the conf
dence these people have in their peculiar doc
trines If the results attained shall be honestly
given to the world, service will be done to the
public and vexed question perhaps settled.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-10-01
r DAMS NEGOTIATED,

ON FIRST MORTGAGE, IN SUMS TO SUIT.
FARMS FOR SALE. MEXICAN SOLDIERS
ENTITLED TO PENSIONS, MAKE APPLICA-
TION AND GET YOUR MONEY. Also, to loan,
$4,000 on exceptional security, at per cent.
Apply to S. PARKER BOSLEY,
Feb. 26.-tf) Towsontown, Md.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 49, 1887

to ask for bite to eat, but went off
hungry and tired. Three of my dresses
are ruined, our washings are paint
spotted, and the sidewalks, fences and
shade trees in our neighborhood have
been spattered and speckled until
strangers stop and gaze in astonish-
ment. Twas intending to say to Mr..
Bowser last night that l wouldn't
stand it another day, but before had a
chance to he went out for smoke. In
his Observation-Disclosures he walked up
the front steps and sat down to muse
in the cleaning. l think he unused
for half an hour, at the end of which
time he came rushing in. he was cov-
cred with green and lead color and
Queen Ann and purple paints, and as
he turned himself around for me to see
he waved his arms and shouted:
"Woman, don't you laugh at me!
You dragged me into this, and if
don't get even with you my name isn't
Bowser!" Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
HUMOROUS.

Whenever we have "blow-out"
at our house we invariably elbow in"
about every thing we have.
Lets go fishing. Johnny" "Naw,
/ don't want to-" "WhyP" "Oh, l
can't catch any thing" "Well can.
catch lickin' every time l go. "
NeWman Independent.
"a guilty conscience needs no ac-
cusor," says the proverb, with great
truth. The guiltier man conscience
the more willing he is to worry along
without an accuser. Merchant IraU-
eler.
1.-THE recent cyclones are said to
have moved on a parbolic curve. y
That is evidently the difference between
cyclone and tornado. which moves
on a diabolic straight line Chicago
Journal.
"A Kentucky farmer has trained a
lot of monkeys to work in his hemp
fields. Well, one soweth, another reap
eth. Many a man has reaped harvest
of hemp because of monkeying around
too much. N. Y. Herald.
"A judge, joking young lawyer,
said; If you and l Wee to be turned
into hor.e or an ass which would
you prefer to beP" 1.-The ass, to be
sule!' replied the lawyer" I've Eeard
of an ass being made a judge, but a
nor, Q never. "-Judge.
Tie near-sighted man who imi-
tate1 the Unc Toby act by taking
what lie Ito lght was a fly tcnderly to
the window and saying as he let it 60,
There is room enough in this world
for thee an me, will not initiate the
Uncle Toby act again. His fly was 8
wasp.-Someruilc Journal.
A real-estate agent who was try.
ing to sell some land lying along the
margin of river. was asked if the river
did not sometimes overflow its banks
"Well, " he answered, Il must say thai
the river is not one of those feeble, sickly
streams that are always confined tC
their beds. NJ Y. Ledger.
The son of the soil in Texas ap
pears to be having tough time this
season. The editor of the Flatonis
argus sings:
"The chinchbug eats the farmers grain,
! The bee-moth spoils his honey,
The bedbug fills him full of pain.
The humbug scoops his money"
First Gentleman (entering thu
apartment of second Gentleman)-
About a year ago you challenged mt
to fight a duel?" Second Gentleman
(sternly)-"I did sir" First c.
And l told you had just been mar
ried and l did not care to risk my lif,
at any such hazard" Second G. Qaugh
ingly(-"I remember sir" First G
| (bitterly)-"Wen, my feelings havt
undergone a change; any time yol
want to fight let me know. Bon Jour.
IL Paris Figaro
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
A Unanimous Protest.

a. the Pioneer Reunion of Washing
ton Territory, which met recently at
Port Townshend, the following resolu-
ton was adopted by two-thirds vote
of the members present:
That the Pioneer Association of
Washington Territory deeply regrets
the recent decision of the Supreme
Court DISTINGUISHING the female citi-
Eens of our Territory, and, believing
that not only the prosperity of our
country and the success and perma-
hence of our democratic form of gov
ernment but the welfare. and happi-
ness of the whole human race is de-
pendent upon the advancement Of
women. we sincerely hope that our next
Legislature will enact a law in such n
form as will stand the test of all judi
cisl scrutiny. restoring all the priyi-
leges which have been abridged.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
HE TALKED TOO MUCH.
The Mean Advantages Taken by an In
quisjtive Dakota Assessor.

The Mean Advantages Taken by an In
quisitive Dakota Assessor.
A man from Minnesota moved to
Dakota this week and bought farm a
few miles from Sioux Falls. He was
just getting settled when, day before
yesterday, man with book under
his arm leaned over the fence and
said:
"Just bought this land, stranger?"
yes"
mighty fine farm"
Eyes, sir, very fine"
"Must be worth $1,000"
"More'n that paid $4,000 for it.
Then there are indications of coal on
it, which are alone worth $1,000"
THAT SOP"
"Yes, sir. There's coal on it sure.
Then the new railroad is going across
one corner and a town is plated there
now. l consider my farm worth
s15. 700 of any mans money"
Fifteen thousand, hey?"
"Yes, sir, Sl5, 200 at least-Iw wouldn't
take cent less. What are you put
ting down in the book"
''Oh. nothing much. You see l am
the assessor. Other farms around here
ain. worth more'n fifteen hundred or
two thousand, but I've just put yours
down at the figure you mentioned
seein's you insist. Good mornin', sir,
glad you've moved into the neighbor-
hood. dakota Bell
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
Some Recent Legislation.

A bill which Governor Beaver, of
Pennsylvania, has signed, and which
is now q law, secures to married
women of that State all the property
rights which unmarried women have,
except that they can not endorse for
another, or mortgage or convey their
real estate unless the husband join.
Those who remember the time when
all the personal property of wives, by
the fact of marriage, became abso-
lutely the husbands, and when the use
and profit of their real estate was his
also, will appreciate this Pennsylvania
law. Strange as it may seem, the first
efforts to secure property rights for
wives were opposed by some women
as stoutly as their right to the bal
lot is now. ''Do you think l would
give myself where Iwould not give my
property" said an indignant wife
who was asked to sign petition to Sc
cure to married women their own
property. So great is the force Of GUS
tom!
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
HORSE AND MULE.
Dialogue Whose Moral Is Not Very
Hard to Comprehend.


A large horse and rough-looking
mule stood in fence-corner. They
were hitched to plow, and the plow-
man had driven them there to stand
while he, some distance away, talked
with neighbor.
II am more and more disgusted,"
said the horse.
What's the matter?" asked the
mule.
II am bemoaning the cruel fate that
has overtaken me. | was not brought
up to such heathenish work as this; in
fact, was not brought up to work at
all. l was born on fine stock farm,
and about the time was well grown
l was bought by circus man and
taught to perform in the ring, gallop-
ing around with a young woman
standing on my back. went on this
way for years until l became too old
to be of longer service to the circus,
and then the man who had pretended
to think so much of me sold me to to
horse trader, and" he added, half in
soliloquy, 81 now find myself on a
farm, hitched up beside a miserable
mule"
Excuse me-" said the mule, turn
ing his head and making Il serio-comic
bow, "but am not miserable. | have
an excellent appetite and get plenty to
eat"
"Yes," rejoined the horse, "but you
have to work for it"
"Very true, but didn't you have to
work in the circusP"
mo; only had to gallop around a
ring"
Didn't it tire youp"
ayes, but soon got rested"
"Then what did You doP"
"Oh, l stood in my stall"
"When did you 60 out into the past
ure and wallow aroundp'
~ didn't 60 out at all, "rejoined the
horse.
"What did you do on sundaysP"
81 travelled in box car"
"Just to 90 to some other place and
gallop round ring, l suppose.
"Yes."
Had no sweet grass, covered with
dewp"
mo"
whenever you went ont some fell
low led you with rope, l suppose"
"Yes, or drove me-"
"Had no place you could call homer"
mo"
"All you got was something to eat
and drink"
"Yes.n
"Tll be glad when night comes"
said the mule.
"Ah," exclaimed the horse, "You
are bemoaning your fate, see,
Yes" rejoined the mule. Il must
confess that | am. +"
don't like the work, ehP"
"Oh, the works all right"
"What is the matter, thenP"
"Well, you see l have been so con-
tented all my life, have scampered so
gaily in the pasture. and have drank
so often at the clear stream that il
makes me sad now to think that am
hitched up here beside miserable,
broken-down horse that has lived an
aimless life of dissipation, and who
hasn't enough of sense to appreciate
his escape in his old age. y Arkd'isdw
Traveller.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DR. H. L. Peck, Professor of Latin
and Greek in Columbia College, is
barely thirty years of age.
The American Seamans Friend
Society has agents at sixty-six ports in
three continents, and has made 463, 1852
volumes accessible to seamen in the
past year.
Henry Ward Beecher had no idea
of the value of money. He would buy
pictures and bric-a-brac without think
ing of the price, and give the articles
away to the first person who fancied
them.
Miss Alice Longfellow is one of the
officers of the Society for the Collegiate
Instruction of Women, and is often
seen at the Harvard Annex building,
where, they say, she is regarded by the
students with love amounting almost
to reverence.
In the matter of libraries this coun-
try is said to contain lin round num-
bers) nearly $500, each with 300 vol
umes or over, and total of more than
20,500,000 of volumes. Forty-sevcn
public libraries have each over $4,000.
~ Y. Witness.
Senator ingalls, home at Atchison,
Kan, consists of the house in which he
and his wife spent their honeymoon,
together with such other wings and
rooms as have been added from time
to time. Originally there were only
four rooms. Now there are eighteen.
Elijah Smith, the Oregon railway
magnate, thinks breakfast the great
meal of the day. He takes no lunch
and is careless about dinner, but starts
in on every days work with his stom-
ach supplied with an amount of food
which will suffice for at least ten
hours.
"A relic of Dick Wilmington is
now being cleared away through the
advance of alterations and improve
ments in London. 1t is a shabby, rus
tic, red-tiled building, inscribed
'Gresham House, once the residence
of Richard Wilmington, Lord Mayor,
1914 Rebuilt 1906"
One of the most eccentric rich men
in New York City is the venerable Ben
| jamin Richardson. He is said to be
worth 100000 or more, but lives in
a tumble-down house in Harlem. He
holds mortgage for $500, 900 against
one of the most prominent insurance
companies in the city. Mr.. Richard
son owns the historic Washington
coach, which he lets out whenever
there is a demand for the revolutionary
relic.
Sir William Dawson has been en-.
gagged for some time past on revision
of well-known work, 1.-THE Story OF
the Earth and Man" Sir William is q
hard-worked college chief, but he de-
votes several months of each year to
his geological pursuits. 1t may be
added that the contributions of his son,
Samuel Dawson, f. r. S. c., to geolog-
ical literature have already attracted
attention among the leading scientific
circles of Europe. The Epoch
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
THE GREETING AT THE GATE.

The eventide draws nigh.
The sunbeams fall aslant
From out the western sky;
Ihe cooling shades supplant
inc midday heat severe,
And mark the hour is late:
The good wife now prepares,
With deft and loving hands.
The board, then quick repairs
Without, and waiting stands
To greet with welcome cheer
The goodman at the gate
And soon the happy light
CLOVIS brighter in her eyes,
AS her far-reaching sight
The well-known form describes.
And still more quickly beats
Her heart, by love elate;
With worthy pride she gloats
Upon his manly grace,
And with fond pleasure notes
The quickening of his pace.
As smilingly he greets
Her, waiting at the gate.
The years go swiftly by,
With added cares and lows;
New needs her hands supply,
A troop Of girls and boys.
Not always bright and kind,
Nor all unfair, her fate;
But, taken, all with all,
She bears no vain regret,
Nor would the past recall;
And at the evening yet
The goodman looks to find
Her waiting at the gate.
But death must come between
At last; and, II it be
Her lot the first within
The vail to pass and he
Continue longer here,
The summons to await,
1t well may seem to him
A Joy and hope assured,
That, when the earth-light dim
In glory is obscured,
The goodwife will appear
And greet him at the gate.
ID. W. Bro,UneL, In Golden r,
-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MARY M. BOWMAN is editor and pro-
prietor of the Abilene Chronicle, a new
Kansas weekly political paper;
CLARA c. AUSTIN, M. d., was del
egate to the National College of Phar-
macy held at Saratoga, June n.
Miss AMELIE RIvEs will probably
spend two or three weeks at Newport,
this summer, and the rest of the time
in her old Virginia home.
Mrs. JAMES H. EARLE, Superintend-
emit of the Sabbath Observance De-
partment, of the Massachusetts w. c.
I. u, has published leahet on Sun
day Newspapers.
Miss HELEN MAGILL has resigned her
position in the Bridgewater Institute,
to take the professorship of Greek and
Latin in the new Woman's College, at
Princeton, New Jersey.
Miss CLARA NJ FOWLER will present
to the city of Concord, N. H., build
ing for a free public library, in
memory of her parents, the late Judge
and Mrs. Asa Fowler
Miss LUELLA VARNEY, of Cleveland,
is rising sculptor She has recently
finished bust of Bishop Gilmore, of
that city, which exhibits much force,
and is striking likeness.
Miss ALICE FREEMAN, President of
WELLESLEY College, has received $50 APP
plications from young women wishing
to enter WELLESLEY next year There
are only 100 places possible at present.
Miss GRACE HOWARD has gone to
the Crow Creek Agency in Dakota,
where she will fulfill two-years' mis-
sion as instructor of the Indians. A
school-house will be erected there and
a school established.
FRANCES E. WILLARD has gone to
Manitoba to attend w. c. I. U.
Convention. She will stop in Bis
marck, d. T., and take in many outly-
ing towns, everywhere carrying the
good gospel of the ballot for women as
the best temperance measure.
RUTH E. WILSON, of Brooklyn, N
Y, has patented an illuminated
flower-piece." The invention consists
in providing the piece with reflector
in keeping with the design, with jets
of light introduced before the reflector.
in such way that air-chambers inter-
yene between the flame and the flow
erS.
Lillian WHITING says: "The time
has almost gone by for the discussion
of whether women want or do not
want the ballot. They will have it
whether they desire it or not. And
the true wisdom is to study to find
how to use this extension of power,
that is sure to come in the near
future (D".
Miss Lucy LARooM seldom makes
plans for any thing; when she says to
herself that she will write something,
she is pretty sure not to do it; and she
seldom knows where she is going till
she starts. Her usual summer resorts
are Center Harbor and Tin August and
September) the. higher White Mount
ain regions. She is not now engaged
upon any connected work, but will
probably write some verses or sketches
f-or both-before the summer is over.
MRS. MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE
("Marion Harland'O has gone with
her family to Sunnybank, on Lake
Ramapo, Northern New Jersey. Such
leisure as she can get she will devote
to novel which she has been trying
for six years to find time to write. DIR.
Terhune will pass some weeks in the
Adirondacks; and both he and his wife
will accept the hospitality of a friend
who has a country-seat on Lake Win
nepiseogee, for week in August
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18

Queen Victoria is exactly fivs fee
high.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18

-"Oh, Rowena," exclaimed Wolff
germ T, pemeasure, dropping on lis
knees without a struggle, ''your
beauty fires nv heart" MY daugh-
ter" said old HengiSt Wheatcorner,
entering thN room, al viii divide
the contract with you; 1 win fire the
rest of him." Which he dld.-Burdette.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18

1t is reported that the sales of the
five leading American magazines that
are reissued in England are greater in
that country than the aggregate sales
of the twenty-five magazines published
in the United Kingdom.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-18
One Dollar Per Year.

experience when they are foreed upon
our sight. May they be gracious,
sweet and gentle, as should be the
strong, helpful and brave!
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-18
ANOTHER orINo,s ,L,Ru.
The City oil works 'atche, rirc, hat
Nustains small nnmags.

While the great coni,agrilion was play
ing havoc with the coibprr.- compiny's
stock aud storage. about 80 O'clock last
night, the dreaded lirc balls pcal,d forth
another nminnus alarm inm the tower
Al II the engines IN tie ciiy were using
their combined efforts Ia stay the torment
81 flames which wcrc grrcdily consuming
thousands and sa,up.iy threatening mill.
ions Of dollars morp oi valuable property
IN the lower part of the CITY. l,tt when IL
was In lew minutes a~cpH1'ucd that the
second outbreak pWsapll d'I0t as dire
consequences n the one in progress, an
other call was made ior p'd TIE fear Tor
tho Time was well fonnd,'t for u was the
City oil works Which weN on fire. Two
engines were NJ once nrlrcl io oca., op-
crlions NJ the compfci- fire aud ~ with
/ MI their speed io iight The iir lirnd IN tho
next most inviting location IN the city.
/ The engines were on thc auuc IN q few
/ minutes, bat fortunately WhDn the already
/ Wcariod men arrived the fire was under
/ control. What had h. J lair % br d-ns-
ifous fire was, by the thoughilul and cnrr.
| gciic work Of the cmplo,cs checked, aud
Il ~ ~ wv NfANNNf 'ANNNNH .''H"iN''NH
The os.works are located On Madison,
opposite Wellington liwct, and cover
quite an area of grpind, employing n
large force Ia the Manufacture " oil from
cotton seed The huller which takes the
lint from the crushed I'D is on the scc.
ond floor, and IL Is supposed that the iric.
ton IN the saws Of the butler. which were
being run 10 their full capacity. caused lhc
sparks which igniicd The loosc lint, largr
quantity of.which wins ou that iloor. Like
n fash the flames shot over that floor, and,
90 the credit of the several negro employees
who were on the iloor, Instead Of fleeing
from the danger that Was iasi cnycloping
them, they seized the convenient hand
hose, NJ which there Ncro several. and
the streams oi water sCJn puonchcd thc
flames, though not until about $500 dam.
age had been done to The rubber Dcliinp
and the lint cotton on that iloOr The
damage ia covered by insurance.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-18
THE PRIZE FIGHT.



NGw NoUE, Nov II. Jack Dempsey
tells the following story u the McAulillc.
Carney fight;
al smith, Carney friend, WAS the iirst
man 10 enter the ring. The referee could
not 40 otherwise than hc dil, and | say
right her, that, had been in his place
aud bound by circumstances ~ hc was, |
would have acted ~ ho did. Carney Is
such u general that lac can ilglrt foul with
cunninpnpss that would defy the best
headed referee In the land.
\ltcr the thipl hound knew that jack
had Carney, and looked "a see him Sown
him in the thirty .iouth or thiny.ilith
round; for Il was m those rounds that !
expected that Carney would grow weak IN
his legs lioiop', however that time came
Carney began Ia iiglt his cunning way.
Ills whole fight vas malc mp oi puugcs.
huiling with his hcad aud knccling Jack
lid not hDgin ~ show ans injury until the
thhticih round, mil then ~ his injuries
came from tuucy's goudng nc,i,s. lie
would ram his fingers into jacks eyes and
butt him with his head When by rush hc
| gui him over ngpnsl thc rupcs. Vet, with
/ nl this. Jack Ill MOI lcccitc one
twentieth ~ much punishment rs h,
! did In biz fglt with Gilmorr. and
! IL his stomach had not gunc hack un him
Ice would moi have been boihcrd ~ bal
~ he Was with tnury's knee. lou know
Carney, every time hr struck nj Jack
would bath hut him with his head aud
give him the knee. Th,-o w,rJ foul
blows, iu-i n- guud fouls ~ when hc ,c-
lilrairly caught Jack los the lea, throw
him AMI. as Jack Tell. icll un him and nm
hi, head into his stomach When hc
found his lcg- going Carney wanted "a
have foul illoNcd. lui wanted u in such
way that hc would r1v TINT be- hld hccn
demanded ont nj ihu lnltlr'
Speaking of The appearance NJ the men,
Dempsey ,lIii Quincy Is mon punished
than VI, iuiiilr. llr hns big. bnd lurnp
on his lpphcal lplh ewes mr. hlnrkcucI
and the lpit one almost clo-cl. llis left
side i bruised anil hlackcnrd und nmpy.
lii iur.urm. an swollen nnl lumpy, too.
| Ills body Is well marked. lie WIS not
able tn quit his chair IN the ring until hall
an hour after Ne \uliilc had gone To- hi-
hotel Al jacks marks ac two eyes
| hhrkCnsi and q cut ear Tli- rui was
/ caused hy biz falling n.iin.t TIE Stakes.
Ills hUly !. o little marked with his lnll-
| ngains, thc mpc..'